You hear people say that there's too much CG in movies today, but CG is what allows me to take a green-painted wall in a studio and make it disappear….

When you do a studio picture, all the paperwork and legal stuff is already taken care of!.

I don't want to have so much humor [in films] that it undermines the jeopardy, but enough to sometime relieve tension..

While you're making the film and working with the actors, if you want to have a little room to breathe and experiment and play, it grows, and you wan….

Strangely, I always have a lot of cut scenes. I keep writing shorter and shorter scripts, thinking that this time, I'll get all my scenes in..

We got together and realized that Universal made it clear that they were out of the Riddick business. They didn't want to spend that kind of money an….

In all my science fiction movies, I try to blend the familiar with the futuristic so as not to be too off putting to the audience. There is always so….

Had we had all the money in the world to spend and we were doing another studio movie, we probably would have jumped quickly into the Necromonger uni….

If I know what my finale is when I'm writing a screenplay, then I don't always have to chart out every scene before that. I can adequately find my wa….

There are trappings of science fiction which I kind of embrace, but there are also cliches which I run from..

Sometimes, if you leave yourself open, an actor can bring nice nuances to a character..

After I script the movie, I have to storyboard it out, I have to budget it, and I have to understand if I can afford all those visual effects or not..

Damn, my first cut that I showed to distributors was probably about two hours and 20 minutes, even though my contract said two hours. So, I had to lo….

To come up short when you reach too far is not such a bad thing rather than not to reach at all, right?.

I guess you don't make any franchise movies unless the fans are there..

Theres so much diversity of opinion out there, so ultimately you have to listen to it, put it aside, and make what you want to make..